Jay Leno's 63 Chrysler Turbine Car

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http://youtu.be/b2A5ijU3Ivs

Jay Leno probably has the best automobile collection on the planet right now. For the last couple of years he has been doing videos about particular cars in his collection and putting them on his website. Now he's doing new ones and putting them on youtube.

This is on the 1963 Chrysler Turbine car. When Chrysler was going into bankruptcy in 2009; Leno privately, and for an undisclosed amount of money, bought one of three cars from the company's collection.

I have read the book Leno talks about in the video. It's an easy read and talks about the many years and loads of money Chrysler spent on the broader turbine project. Out of all of that, the company only sold one car..to Jay Leno.

This is the website for Mark Olson, who Leno talks about in the video. It gives a facinating look into how the Turbine program worked and how it personally impacted Mark and his family: http://www.turbinecar.com/turbine.htm

P.S. The very first person to get a turbine car in the program was an engineer at Motorola in Chicago.